Center Eaton United Methodist Church

Center Eaton United Methodist Church is a Michigan historical marker in Eaton Township, Eaton County, dedicated 1987.

Eaton County · dedicated 1987 · 2145 Narrow Lake Rd., Eaton Township

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On November 30, 1878, the local Methodist class purchased land for a church from Benjamin and Catherine Spotts for twenty-five dollars. Church men cut and hewed the logs for the building. The Reverend B. E. Paddock dedicated the church on November 10, 1881. Luren D. Dickinson, governor of Michigan from 1939 to 1940, taught Sunday school here both before and during his tenure as governor. From 1918 to 1955 the church sponsored Lulu Tubbs, a missionary in Southern Rhodesia, which became Zimbabwe.

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Center Eaton United Methodist Church

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